From the Stanford University press release by Max McClure: The diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association defines autism in what seems to be a fairly comprehensive way: social impairment, difficulties with communication, repetitive behavior…
From the University of California-Davis Health System: Scientists affiliated with the UC Davis MIND Institute have discovered how a defective gene causes brain changes that lead to the atypical social behavior characteristic of autism. The…
From the Research Council of Norway press release via ScienceDaily: Ingesting the hormone oxytocin via nasal spray improves the ability to read people’s facial expressions. These findings hold great promise for treatment of mental health…
From the UC Santa Barbara press release: The junior high and high school years are emotionally challenging even under the best of circumstances, but for adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), that time can be…
From the UNC Health Care press release via ScienceDaily: A new study by University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers found that 31 percent of children identified as at risk for autism spectrum disorders…
From the California Institute of Technology press release via ScienceDaily: Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) pioneered the study of the link between irregularities in the immune system and neurodevelopmental disorders such as…
From the Emory University press release: Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have identified five rare mutations in a single gene that appear to increase the chances that a boy will develop an autism…
From the University of Kansas, Life Span Institute press release via Newswise: University of Kansas researchers have found larger resting pupil size and lower levels of a salivary enzyme associated with the neurotransmitter norepinephrine in…
From the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics press release via AlphaGalileo: This paper reports a stable improvement in social skills in a 15-year-old boy diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome (AS), after an outpatient treatment with Social…
From the Harvard Medical School press release by Shraddha Chakradhar via ScienceDaily: Deleting a single gene in the cerebellum of mice can cause key autistic-like symptoms, researchers have found. They also discovered that rapamycin, a…